Documents / FOIA release
This is a copy of "The UFO Evidence," a report published in May 1964 by the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) in Washington, D.C. and edited by Richard H. Hall. The CIA released its copy in 2001. The report draws 746 sightings from more than 5,000 signed reports and argues that unexplained UFOs are real, artificial objects under intelligent control. It criticizes Air Force secrecy and calls for a Congressional inquiry into Project Blue Book and a larger scientific investigation.
“Gulf of Mexico”13 pages
## CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ... i Abstract. Explanation of NICAP and its policies. Statement by Board of Governors. Section I. CROSS-SECTION DIGEST ... 1 Sample cases showing general features of UFO reports. Section II. INTELLIGENT CONTROL ... 9 Cases indicating intelligence: pacing of vehicles, reaction to stimuli, formation flights. Section III. AIR FORCE OBSERVATIONS ... 19 Sightings by Air Force pilots, navigators, other officers and men. Section IV. ARMY, NAVY & MARINE CORPS ... 29 Reports of other military personnel. Section V. PILOT & AVIATION EXPERTS ... 33 Observations by airline, military and private pilots. Section VI. SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS ... 49 Observations by professional scientists and engineers, including astronomers and aeronautical engineers. Section VII. OFFICIALS & CITIZENS ... 61 Sightings by police officers, civil defense and ground observer corps, cross-section of citizens' reports. Section VIII. SPECIAL EVIDENCE ... 73 Electro-magnetic effects. Radar cases. Photographic evidence. Physical and Physiological effects. Sound. Angel's Hair. Section IX. THE AIR FORCE INVESTIGATION ... 105 Background of secrecy. Official regulations. History and analysis of the official UFO investigation. Approved For Release 2001/04/02: CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 186 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.